SciELO SA GROWTH, CRITERIA AND USAGE

SciELO SA User’s Group Meeting

29 July 2014

SciELO SA GROWTH, CRITERIA AND USAGE

SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online

Growth:

• 41 titles to date with 1 title to be added per month• DHET has provided funding for backfiles to be created for the

above 41 titles dating back to 2008. • During the 2014/2015 financial year an additional 12 titles will

be added to the collection.

Future: Ideally up to 180 South African scholarly journals willbe published in the collection.

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Advantages of becoming part of the SciELO SA Collection

The SciELO SA Collection (www.scielo.org.za) was established by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and is funded by the Department of Science and Technology and endorsed by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)

SciELO is an integral part of the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) portal, which had its origins in Brazil and is now distributed across most South American countries

SciELO SA aims to become a fully indexed open-access journal collection in the service of the South African research community through effective quality assurance, worldwide visibility, accessibility and impact, and amenability to bibliometric analysis

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Advantages of becoming part of the SciELO SA Collection (continued)

Journals appearing in the SciELO SA Collection will in future receive accreditation and a subsidy from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)

SciELO SA is connected to international indexing services, e.g. Thomson Reuter’s Web of Knowledge now integrates the SciELO Citation Index

The SciELO Network Portal is fast becoming the most promising multinational journal indexing and publishing model in the developing world

The SciELO Network provides opportunities for south/south collaboration between researchers.

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Process to become part of (and remain part of) SciELO SA

DHET accreditation and a positive evaluation by the ASSAf peer-review panel

Journals are invited to join the SciELO SA collection

Journal editor completes the necessary SciELO adhesion form and sends ASSAf the PDFsof its most recent journal issue

Journal (editorial board) signs the publishing agreement

If the journal remains current for 6 months then it is included in the Web of Knowledge SciELO Citation Index

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Process to become part of (and remain part of) SciELO SA (continued)

Currency is evaluated every 6 months (end-June & end-Dec)

If not current the journal is excluded from Web of Knowledge for the next 6-month period

If journals have become current again, then they are included in the Web of Knowledge platform again for the next 6 months

If a journal’s currency starts threatening the certification evaluation of the SciELO SA Collection then a letter requesting improved currency will be sent to the editor

If the journal cannot improve its currency within the next 12 months then it will be temporarily removed from the collection

Once the currency of the journal improves again, it will become part of the collection again

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Every 6 months all SciELO collections are re-evaluated to retain their certification

CRITERIA

•Exact compliance to SciELO standards

•Open access – no embargoes – articles need to be made available on publication

•Journals may not indicate that ”permission needs to be asked to print or use the documents”.

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Criteria (continued)

•Adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence (preferably Cc-BY) SA 2.1, 2.5 or 3.0

•Minimum of 12 research articles per year

•Currency

•Rolling pass journals: Need to publish at least 3 articles by the end of April

SciELO SA GROWTH, CRITERIA AND USAGE

There are 7 SciELO SA journals that are not at

present part of Web of Knowledge

due to currency problems

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Usage

 The usage statistics from the SciELO SA platform indicate that 949 013 full-text articles were viewed via the SciELO SA platform over

the last 12 months.

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SciELO SA GROWTH, CRITERIA AND USAGE

Louise van Heerden

SciELO SA Operations Manager

louise@assaf.org.za